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Chase has kicked off its
Chase Community Giving Summer 2010 program on Facebook to award more than $5 million to be shared among 200
charities with grants ranging from $20,000 to $250,000. Chase Community Giving provides an opportunity for small and local
organizations to build awareness of their causes on a national level. The first Chase Community Giving program saw over
2 million users on the Facebook platform become fans of
the program and helped decide which, of more than 500,000 charities,
should receive a share of $5 million. More than 100 winners from 31
states were selected. Chase Community Giving is back again â and
improved. The number of charities eligible to receive awards has doubled
and several new tools have been introduced. The site for the Summer 2010 Program is live now and can be found at http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving. Charities can start
personalizing their pages and voting begins June 15. Winners will be determined on or around July 13.

Stakool mPayments and global payment provider LinQpay, giving
the former a 100% stake in the latter. The acquisition joins two complementary businesses, positioning Stakool,
to capitalize on the growing mobile payment and web-based payment
opportunities. With services in South Africa, China and India, LinQpay
offers “Mobile LinQ” and “Global LinQ” services. Mobile
LinQ, the patented mobile carrier and device agnostic Mobile Payment
Service leverages standard wireless phones merchants already carry to
process secure payments and deliver user friendly real-time data. Global
LinQ, enables e-commerce merchants a single point of connection for
global payment methods and multi-currency transactions. LinQpay’s
clients include Tupperware, Avroy Shlain, University of Johannesburg and
the University of KwaZula-Natal. The acquisition will enable Stakool to
provide leading payment solutions to all segments of the e-commerce and
m-commerce industries. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

MoneyGram International and Citi are set to expand MoneyGram’s money transfer
services to all Citi locations in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras and Nicaragua. Citi has grown extensively in the region since 2007 when it acquired
Grupo Cuscatlan and Grupo Financiero Uno. Both institutions had provided
MoneyGram money transfer services for 15-years in El Salvador and Honduras.
MoneyGram began its global money transfer services in Central America
more than 15 years ago. The company has expanded in the region and today
has a leading network comprised of financial institutions and retailers.
In 2009, Central America received nearly $11.6 billion in remittances
according to the Inter-American Development Bank. Central America is
highly dependent on these funds as the IADB estimated it accounts for
nearly 17 percent of the region’s gross domestic product.

CashStar has launched “Last-Minute-Gifts.com” for shoppers hunting for the perfect
Fatherâs Day gift. Consumers start by selecting the retailer from which
they would like to purchase a personalized eGift Card.
Last-Minute-Gifts.com offers instant access to eGift Cards from a
variety of leading retailers and restaurants including The Home Depot,
The Container Store, Chiliâs, Uno Chicago Grill, OâCharleyâs
Restaurants, Steak nâ Shake, Dippinâ Dots and Travelocity, among others.
Consumers then choose the eGift Card design and denomination. They can
add their personal touch with a note or can upload an image to make the
card a truly personalized, unique gift. The card is sent instantly or at
a set delivery date via email. The recipient is notified via email of
their eGift Card or the card can be printed for in person gifting.
The secure, bar-coded eGift Cards can be redeemed in store or online at
participating retail sites. The cards carry no service fees or expiration dates and offer the most
personal, convenient and secure gifting option on the market.
CashStar is the digital gifting and incentives company.

SmartCard Marketing Systems has forged its latest joint marketing campaign with Latin Phone telecom company in the Hispanic marketplace. Set to market Latin Phone’s open-loop prepaid debit cards to their existing customer base of over 800,000 customers. The prepaid cards appeal to un-banked or under-banked, a growing market thanks to the extended recession. Smart Card Marketing Systems was established in 2003, offering prepaid cards, stored value smart cards and payment processing services. The company’s goal is to partner with national and international organizations to purchase and market Smart Card’s products. Smart Card plans to achieve this goal through powerful sales organizations and merchant reseller programs utilizing their GoSmartCard platform.

Mobey Forum mobile financial services ecosystem has released its white paper specifying implementer guidelines for mobile remote payments. The white paper will be of particular interest to senior decision-makers at financial institutions, and informs readers on how mobile remote payment technology can effectively be delivered to end-users by leveraging existing systems and establishing an open infrastructure. This Mobey Forum white paper focuses on mobile remote payments which enable two parties to send and receive payments or exchange funds using the mobile channel to provide practical guidelines for implementation, leveraging both existing infrastructures and standard payment instruments such as credit transfers, card payments and transfers between stored value accounts. It touches on the Common Infrastructure Model; Intermediate Operability Model; and the Direct Interoperability Model.

Unisys Payment Services has won a five-year extension of its check processing contract with The Co-operative Bank. Signed in the first quarter of 2010, the extension has an estimated value of more than $US43million and allows Unisys to continue providing outsourced check processing and image archiving services to The Co-operative Bank until 2015. It will also give access to the Unisys Payment Information Engine (PIE) online cheque image archive. The Co-operative Bank is part of The Co-operative Group, the UK’s largest consumer co-operative. Unisys has been an outsourcing services partner to The Co-operative Bank since 1994.

Wireless non-cash technology provider USA Technologies has approved an
extension of its ongoing subscription rights offering.
Under the terms of the rights offering, the Company distributed at no
charge to the holders of its common stock and its publically traded
warrants as of May 19, 2010, non-transferable subscription rights to
purchase up to an aggregate of $7,521,891 of new shares of common stock
and related warrants. Each right entitles the holder to purchase 1 share
of common stock at the subscription price of $.90 per share of common
stock and a related warrant that would entitle the holder to purchase
one share of common stock at the exercise price of $1.13 per share of
common stock. The Company intends to use the proceeds of the rights
offering for providing financing for the manufacture of its ePort
cashless payment products.

CA-based e-commerce provider Danal is partnering with major online games providers as
participating merchants for its “BilltoMobile” payment service. Among
dozens of online merchant partners who are participating in the launch
of service in the US are Nexon America NHN, Perfect World, Ntreev, YNK Interactive, Fantage,
Cyberstep, Gravity, Three Rings, Global Tongue, KBS World, MMOABC,
Onnet, Planet Cazmo, Ray Flame, Thebroth.com, Uforia, Xivio, and Gamepot
USA. Danal merchants are featuring the “BilltoMobile” service on their
eCommerce sites as a payment option, along with the traditional choices
of credit card, bank card, PayPal and others. Collectively, these
initial launch partners generate more than $1 Billion in annual global
revenues. In Korea, the addition of Danal’s mobile payment solution has,
in some cases, led to a 25 to 50% increase in sales for merchant partners.
With Danal’s long-proven payment gateway operating the connection
between the carrier and BilltoMobileâ¢ merchants, participating merchants
benefit from market-competitive merchant fees, as
well as BilltoMobile’s robust back office and real-time data views with
real-time customer transaction adjustment capabilities.

ParTech has introduced its “EverServ Kiosk 6000” to
provide customers enhanced self-service options that speed customer
service. The new touch-screen kiosk was developed in collaboration
with ISV partners Titan and Vista Entertainment Solutions (Vista) to
optimize, test, and integrate their cinema ticketing application software
into the “EverServ Kiosk 6000”. It will also integrate PARâs “EverServ
PixelPoint POS” application with the kiosk, which is designed to work
with virtually any kiosk application. The “PAR EverServ POS” Kiosk
6000 system features a bright, 15-inch LCD display with high-durability
capacitive touch-screen technology with a rugged construction and open-
architecture design.

CashEdge Intelligent “Money Movement” services and U.S. Bank are partnering to launch the CashEdge “Popmoney” person-to-person online and mobile payments service later this year. U.S. Bank will offer “Popmoney” to its m-banking customers through usbank.com and the downloadable mobile banking application, the U.S. Bank Mobile Wallet. U.S. Bank is the first large U.S. bank to offer a mobile P2P solution that enables users to send money directly from their bank account to anyone with an email address, mobile phone number and a bank account.
CashEdge “Money Movement” solutions for financial institutions include mobile and online person-to-person (P2P) payments, account transfers, account opening and funding, small business applications and financial account aggregation, collectively moving more than $50B every year.

U.S. Bank and The Kroger have formed a strategic alliance, giving Kroger customers a suite of payment products. With this, U.S. Bank has purchased Kroger’s existing credit card portfolio from RBS Citizens and plans to offer additional financial services for Kroger customers. Kroger creates an ideal platform to introduce innovative payments products and financial services. The alliance is an expansion of U.S. Bank’s extensive financial services relationship with Kroger, the nation’s largest traditional grocery retailer, which began in 1930. U.S. Bank currently provides a number of retail, corporate banking, trust, capital markets and credit services for Kroger. Kroger has nearly 2,500 locations operating under several brand names and U.S. Bank operates bank branches in 192 of those locations through an in-store banking relationship.